My family used to take day trips to a beach in Rhode Island during summer break. It was a great beach with perfect waves for body surfing. One day, the waves...

I recently got hearing aids, but I continued to miss a lot of my morning conversations over coffee with my wife. The hearing aids were working fine. The issues were that...

I am in the ninth grade and regularly read The Upper Room before going to bed at night. This daily reading gives me a lot of spiritual motivation. In March 2023,...

My wife and I were at the airport, going home from a trip to New York City. In the check-in area, we went to get a wheelchair for my wife. While...

I was lying in bed one morning as a thunderstorm moved through my area. As I listened, the words of a favorite hymn about God’s display of power throughout earth came...

In 2013 when my contract with an international non-governmental organization ended, I was completely overwhelmed. I felt like I was sinking. The future looked bleak. I was approaching my fiftieth birthday...

How much do you know about Titus? There’s a book in the Bible named after him, which is a letter written to him from Paul. Paul calls him “my true son...

I grew up with an alcoholic father and a mother who suffered from mental illness. My older sister, Linda, was the only family member I could rely on. I looked up...

“One kilometer to go,” shouted the timekeeper as I crossed the mark in a 5-kilometer run. I was tiring, but I kept my eyes on the finish line and my mind...

I gazed up at the man in the ice cream van as he handed me the cone. It was huge, heaped with several scoops of ice cream. It had a chocolate...